Apple's App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion — Apple® today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store™ by the more than 200 million iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps …

Turntable.fm and the Siren Song of the Start-up Pivot — There is no more overused and reviled word in the world of tech start-ups than pivot. Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. — It seems to capture the manic energy of the current tech industry, in which an idea can get millions in funding …

Investment Values Twitter at $8 Billion — While Twitter isn't rushing to go public like some of its larger peers, the micro-blogging service doesn't lack investor interest. — The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up is in the process of raising $400 million dollars …

A Walk in the Woods With Mark Zuckerberg — You might think a long quiet walk through the woods with Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is a treat only his closest friends and dearest family get to enjoy. Yet a chummy stroll with one of the richest men in the world is actually reserved …

Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks — Ford, MTV and Mashable Likely Among First Allowed to Create Company Pages — Soon after the launch of Google+ came the inevitable next question: When can brands set up pages there, as they have successfully on Facebook? Now, an answer: in about two weeks.

Google Grabs Former Yahoo Ari Balogh En Route to StumbleUpon — The Web discovery start-up StumbleUpon has hired Japjit Tulsi, who was previously a director of engineering at Google, as its VP of engineering, filling the role it had previously tried to give to former Yahoo CTO and EVP Products Ari Balogh.

Study: 32% of all US iPhone 4s are on Verizon — AT&T had an eight-month head start with the iPhone 4, but Verizon has still ended up with a healthy 32 percent of the U.S. iPhone 4 market, according to a study by the mobile analytics company Localytics. — The study, if accurate …

Facebook and Google+'s video chat tools compared — Video chat is the big thing again, at least according to Facebook, which let loose a new video chat service yesterday. Powered by Skype, the new feature lets Facebook users start a video calls with one another while continuing to use the site.

Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”

PSD2 Compliance in Zoho Books — The Revised Payment Services Directive, also known as the PSD2, is a set of regulatory guidelines laid down by the European Union (EU) for finance, banking, and payment service companies.

Google Fi - a phone plan, by Google — We felt that most phone plans just weren't made with you in mind. So that's why we built Google Fi with features that real people actually want. Click to learn more.